Connecting Certainty With Political Violence

I learned from reading Popper was right about the link between certainty and extremism | Psyche i Popper was right about the link between certainty and extremism from Pysche. Not that it can be easily condensed but not all who admit no error in their thinking resort to political violence.

...Yet, in the social domain, the Right extreme was clearly more dogmatic than the Left – thereby supporting the rigidity-of-the-Right model. Indeed, social conservatism was especially associated with dogmatism, suggesting that something about social conservatism, specifically, may be congenial to unjustified certainty and intolerance.

Read the article how the researcher's reached this conclusion. I like their counseling intellectual humility for all of us.

sch 8/13/22